MAGISTRATES COURTS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 379, 30 August 1875, Page 2

MAGISTRATES COURTS.

CHRISTCHURCH. Monday, August 30. (Before G. L. Mellish, Esq, R.M. ; C. R. Blakiston, and G. L, Leo, Esqs., J.P.’s.) Drunk and Disorderly. William Hearn was fined 5s and Is 6d cab-hire; Garrett Byrnes, for being drunk and breaking a pane of glass in Air Bonnington’s shop, High street, was lined 5s and ordered to pay 20s damage done. Geo. Stevens, an old offender, was sentenced to one months’ imprisonment with hard labour. Wm, Johns was lined 40s, and John llealy, ss. Illegally on Premises. —Robert Cottrell, charged with being found illegally in Aldrige’s stables, was discharged with a caution. Larceny from the Person. —Richard Dougherty was charged with stealing £2 from a man named George Wilson. Detective Bettington deposed to arresting the prisoner the previous morning. On searching him, found a £1 Union Bank note and 18s 3d. George Wilson, the prosecutor, stated he was in the Q.C.E. hotel on Saturday night. Had two notes in a purse in his pocket at the time. The notes were on the Union Bank. The prisoner was in the bar at the time, and followed him (witness) up to bed. The purse was in his trousers pocket, and he laid them at the back of the bed. He went to sleep, and when he woke up the prisoner was gone. Noticed that bis trousers had been moved, and the money was gone. There was a piece off one of the corners of the notes. The note produced is the one. By prisoner— Was sure he had the money in his pocket when he went to bed. Mr Beattie, landlord of the hotel, saw the prisoner follow the last witness up to bed on Saturday night. When ho (witness) asked the prisoner for the price of his bed he searched his pockets and produced fid and 3d in coppers. That was all the money he had. Allowed the prisoner to go to bed, and told him that as he had not sufficient to pay for his bed he would give him one for nothing. By prisoner—“ You did not pay me in the bar for your bed, nor did I take two drinks up to the bedroom.” Thomas Mutter, barman at the Central Hotel, remembered prisoner coming into that hotel about eleven o’clock. He changed a one pound note, and stayed there all night. John Healy, called by the prisoner, stated that when he came into town on Saturday morning he met the prisoner at the Borough Hotel. The prisoner was spending money freely at the time, and he saw he had some notes about him. By Inspector Feast—Was locked up with the prisoner in the depot since Sunday last. Detective Benjamin stated that he saw the prisoner trying to pawn the coat then on him at Cohen’s shop on Friday last. The pawnbroker would not take it. Sentenced to three mouths’ imprisonment, with hard labor.